WorksheetsComp Arch Quiz 1.1-1.4
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who is considered the first computer programmer?
Margaret Hamilton
Ada Lovelace
Grace Hopper
Katherine Johnson
The "stored program concept" embodied in the EDVAC design is mostly closely associated with which famous computer scientist?
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
John von Neumann
Howard Aiken
One limitation from the original Princeton architecture is the single path for both data and instructions to memory. This is known as the "von Neumann (a) ".
The major invention in the second generation of computers was the switch from unreliable vacuum tubes to (a) .
(a) memory is made from many tiny ring shaped magnets woven together.
" (a) on a chip" designs move most of a computer's components onto a single integrated circuit chip.
Which company's processor was selected for the original IBM PC?
Intel
Motorola
Apple
AMD
_______ compatibility means that old software can still run on newer, more advanced hardware.
upward
leftward
forward
backward
